# fimbria
## English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria (“a border, fringe”), from Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”). Doublet of fringe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɪm.bɹi.ə/

### Noun

fimbria (plural fimbriae or fimbriæ)
* (biology) A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.
** (anatomy, usually in the plural) An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
    When a follicle is mature, the egg within it bursts out of the ovary, and the Fallopian tube's fingerlike fimbria reach out and grab it.
** (bacteriology) A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria; used by the bacteria to adhere to one another, to animal cells and to some inanimate objects.
    Synonym: pilus

#### Derived terms

* fimbrial (adjective)

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “fimbria”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “fimbria”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfim.bri.a/, [ˈfɪmbriä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfim.bri.a/, [ˈfimbriä]

### Noun

fimbria f (genitive fimbriae); first declension
* Alternative form of fimbriae: a fringe, border, edge

#### Inflection

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: fímbria (learned)
* → English: fimbria
* → French: fimbrié (learned)
* Occitan: fimbria, franja, fremnha
* → Old French: fiembre, fimbre, felimbre (learned)
* → Portuguese: fímbria (learned)
* → Spanish: fimbria (learned)
* Translingual: fimbri-
* ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *frĭmbĭa
* Old Francoprovençal: *frengi
** Franco-Provençal: frengi
** Old French: frenge
*** French: frange
**** → Catalan: franja
**** → Italian: frangia
**** → Portuguese: franja
**** → Spanish: franja
*** Norman: frange
*** → Middle Dutch: fringe, frange, fraenge
**** Dutch: franje
***** → Sranan Tongo: franya
****** → Saramaccan: faándja
**** → Middle High German: franze
***** German: Franse
*** → Middle English: frenge, frang
**** English: fringe
**** Scots: freenge
*** → Sicilian: frinza
* Romanian: frâmbie, frânghie

### References

* “fimbria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, see “fimbriae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* fimbria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “fimbria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “fimbria”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

## Spanish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria, from Latin fimbriae. Doublet of franja.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfimbɾja/ [ˈfĩm.bɾja]
* Rhymes: -imbɾja
* Syllabification: fim‧bria

### Noun

fimbria f (plural fimbrias)
* (anatomy) fimbria (structure in the form of a fringe)

### Further reading

* “fimbria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10